The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series B. Applied Mathematics

Table of Contents - Volume 38 - Issue02

Research Article

A two-sided shooting method in computation of travelling combustion waves of a solid material

Andonowati1

Abstract

Numerical solutions for travelling combustion waves of a solid material are sought. The algorithm of computation is based on a two-sided shooting method. It is found that there is a lower bound of the wave speed c, say c*, such that for c < c* no numerical solution can be constructed. This c* is a function of the activation energy of the medium.

(Received July 11 1994)

(Revised January 1995)

Footnotes

1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3A 2K6.

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